dletter:Unfortunately the internet "media" has basically dragged the traditional "mainstream" media down to their level over the past few years, to the point where getting information out "now" is better.

The motto of the news now seems to be kind of a version of the saying "It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission".... permission in the journalists case being taking time to gather the facts.

Howard Stern fans have been pranking the media with phony scoops long before the internet was popular, just to point how shiatty the media's research is.